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scronkfinkle

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    Comment #49238306

    Fun game. Would be nice if there was a single player mode that simply prints the letters and at the end shows the longest word that was missed. That way you can play it offline and…

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    Comment #49164640

    The impressive/surprising thing is your premise because we effectively can spin up an army of mathematicians now

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    Comment #49122820

    > and writes entire operating systems from scratch ehhhh, we're not really there. Not saying it's impossible to reach in the future but large tasks like this are still out of scope…

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    Comment #49039805

    I don't feel it's meaningful to berate the point anymore about the hypocrisy of the American labs. Now as the sentiment and effort from them to push for regulation increases so doe…

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    Comment #49011538

    so they distilled one of the best models in the world AND released it for free to everyone. Where can I send them flowers as a thank you?

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    Comment #48628938

    Meanwhile non-frontend folks decide to call one thing "threads" and another thing "strings" and have them be completely unrelated to each other.

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    Comment #48335642

    On the one hand, organizations are without question using LLM's well beyond what is actually necessary, and as reality kicks in they're forced to scale back accordingly. However at…

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    Comment #48244600

    The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. I…

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    Comment #48227372

    Solving one of the most famous Erdos problems that has remained unsolved for 80 years without using tools like lean but instead a giant reasoning block is quite a lot more than "ki…

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    Comment #48134200

    Maybe I'm misreading but that is an absurd ToS in this context. So they're telling us they have a solution to a problem, but don't trust it enough to solve it? I tend to be averse …

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    Comment #48104065

    Calling the technology "text auto complete" is not productive to the discussion. Less than a decade ago the idea that a computer could take a fuzzy human-readable description and t…

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    Comment #48090339

    +1, my wife and I have been working on a VORON 2.4 together and it's been a blast!

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    Comment #48049411

    "Pertains" is doing a lot of work in your argument, and you're using it wrong. The data about who viewed your profile pertains to you from the moment the visit happens. That's what…

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    Comment #47890710

    > Also, note that there's zero CUDA dependency Where did you read this? From what I read in the paper it appears to explicitly state that they used NVIDIA GPU's and their MegaMOE c…

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    Comment #47786475

    Claude's diagramming tool that they have built into their web UI is my goto for this task. It's reliable enough that I often will delegate to it first with what I need written in p…

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    Comment #47431381

    The strait of hormuz is still closed, and a new government has not been installed. From a conventional perspective Iran is by all means "losing" the war. However, the United States…

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    Comment #47372034

    Do you also require computers to grow legs when they "run"? "Thinking" is just a term to describe a process in generative AI where you generate additional tokens in a manner simila…

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    Comment #47223395

    I've been working on the data processing side of legal text with https://www.wordstodata.com/ Your work seems more targeted at tracking the real world impact of the bill rather tha…

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    Comment #46959280

    Nice! I'm interested in your cubecl-wgpu patches. I've been struggling to get lower than FP32 safetensor models working on burn, did you write the patches to cubecl-wgpu to get aro…